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From: Erik M. van der Poel <erik@sra.co.jp>
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Subject: national profiles
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wg15rinners,

The Japanese SSI/POSIX group is currently working on two separate
documents: the national profile, and guidelines for national profile
writers. In order to clear things up in my mind, I would like to ask a
few questions:

Is Japan expected to produce a sample Japanese national profile? Or
should Japan produce The Japanese National Profile?

According to the London minutes, Japan seems to have been given an
action item to produce a document about locale harmonization. Is this
the same as guidelines for national profile writers?

The Danish sample national profile appearing in ISO POSIX.1 contains
references to the sample charmap and locale in POSIX.2. However, if a
national profile is something that must be conformed to, is it
reasonable to specify a charmap?

My current thinking is that in order to promote interoperability and
application portability, we will want to produce national profiles
that serve as the basis for conformance testing. We can put a charmap
or two in informative annexes separate from the profiles themselves.

For example, in Japan's case we might specify the JIS X 0208
repertoire in the national profile itself, and provide a sample
Shift-JIS charmap in an informative annex.

Comments?


Erik M. van der Poel                                      erik@sra.co.jp
Software Research Associates, Inc., Tokyo, Japan     TEL +81-3-3234-2692